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Re: Floor796

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post #23

This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback.

The style reminds me of the old Alien Syndrome arcade game

Looks more like Xcom: UFO Defense

Re: Floor796

#85
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why émigré? He is probably Russian.

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script.

Author is from Minsk, Belarus. This information is in his profile on Artstation

Re: Floor796

#86

For some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. The floor's level of interactivity would be so nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess what's going on quite reliably. The experience is quite similar at some level though. I saw Bosch's originals (or 1-to-1 by size repros) many years ago and without zooming in, it was incomprehensible. With zoom, the details are overwhelming.…

Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts & Culture).

Re: Floor796

#87
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why émigré? He is probably Russian.

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script.

>..the site’s developer Pavel Sannikau is always working on new rooms for floor796. Sannikau is a 36-year-old web programmer living in Belarus

From 2023 article https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools-of-the-trade/floors796-pav...

The guy was active on Reddit a week ago https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1pqktaj/new_block_56_...

Re: Floor796

#88
post #56

The editor that is used to draw these animations https://floor796.com/editor/l0 Author has a YouTube channel too somewhere where you can see him making a drawing start to end. (edit: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ ) From FAQs > The creation of Floor796 started in 2018. I spent the first year creating the animation editor, the rendering engine and the site itself. Then I started drawing the fir…

Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about.

I just spotted Steven Segal is munching on a carrot.
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